Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently commented on Web 2.0:
“(Web 2.0 is) useless jargon nobody can explain and a set of technology that tries to achieve exactly the same thing as “Web 1.0”
Mr. TBL is right that Web 2.0 is the same set of technology that tries to achieve exactly the same as what he had envisioned for Web 1.0 or the web in general. I'm sure that since the beginning Mr. TBL has envisioned an open, for-everyone, resource (service)-oriented, self-sustainable web. But that takes time, and typically is user-driven, and it's evolution occurs in phases.
It is not about the technology, or about what was attempted during Web 1.0. All that was great and forms the basis for the next steps, which is where we are today. Today the web is perceived and utilized differently from 15 years ago, even from 5 years ago. The way resources (services) on the web are now getting exposed and consumed, and how user-generated content has disrupted the web is a recent event – and probably is here to stay.
Perhaps, Web 2.0 is not about the evolution of the web, but about the evolution of the people themselves with respect to (how they interact with, and use) the web. Recognizing this paradigm of participation and collaboration with respect to the users and their content, and the services on the web is what is being referred to as the next phase of the web, or Web 2.0.
Web 2.0 vs. Enterprise 2.0 – both are about collaboration and services on the web (the platform), but in two different domains: consumer vs. business respectively.
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